Improvement in animal-traps



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ANIMAL-TRAP.

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ANIMAL-TRAP.

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' JOSEPH W. BATES, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, AND RUDOLPH BORG- ERSRODE,OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN ANIMAL-TRAPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 180,315, dated July 25,1876; application filed December 23, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, JOSEPH. W. BATES, ofMinneapolis, Hennepin county, Minnesota, and RUDOLPH BORGERSRODE, ofPhiladelphia, in the county of Philadelphia, and in the.

trap, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which our inventionappertains to make and use the same, we will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawings, in which-Figure l is a side elevation of our animaltrap when arranged double.Fig. 2 is a section of the same through the line m 00, Fig. 1. Fig.3 isa vertical section of a single suspended trap. Fig. 4 is a perspective"iew of our trap. l

A represents a box of any suitable dimensions,divided by a "erticalpartition, B, in two compartments, so as to form two traps in one. Atopposite ends of the two compartments in the box A are secured gratingsa, as shown, and against the inner side of such grating is placed a pan,O, to hold fresh water as a.decoy-bait, especially on board ships, wherefresh water forms the best decoy for rats. v

The front portion of each compartment has the bottom removed, so thatwhen the trapis placed on the ground the animal will encounter noobstruction in walking into the trap.

-D represents a wire bail, the side arms of which pass through groovesin the sides of the trap, near the front end or entrance, and

up through the top of the box, said arms being, above the box, attachedto a coiled-wire spring, G, fastened on top thereof In front of thedecoy-bait box O in each compartment of the trap is suspended a hook, E,to receive the bait, the upper end of said hook passing through the topof the box, and formed with a loop or ring, b, at its top. 011 the frontof the box is loosely attached a rod, H, as shown. To set the trap, thespring G is pressed down, which brings the bail D down to the ground,and the rod H is then' turned-over the front end ot the spring, and itsend inserted in the loop or ring I). The animal being decoyed into thetrap, in attempting to take the bait on the hook E, will move the same,so that the loop I) will pass off from the end of the rod H, releasingthe spring G, which suddenly and forcibly springs upward with the bail.The bail catches the animal and chokes it to death.

For birds we use a single trap, suspended by a cord,f, or itsequivalent, attached to the rings f, as shown in Fig. .3. the grating abeing a'tthe top, and the lower end open with the bail D therein. In theinterior of this box is anextra' hook, t, for suspending suitabledecoy-bait, while the regular bait-hook E, that springs the trap, islocated above the same.

Having thus fully described our invention,

what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination, with the box A, divided into two compartments, andhaving entrances at opposite ends, of the gratings act at opposite ends,decoy-bait boxes 0 O, bait-hooks E E, with loops or rings 1) b, springsG G, bails D D, and rodsH H, all substantially as and for the purposesherein set forth.

2. An animal-trap having the cord f or its equivalent, the rings f, thegrating a at its upper end, open at its lower end, and provided withinterior decoy-bait hook '1; and hook E, for springing the trap, allsubstantially as herein set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set ourhands'this 9th day of December, 1875.

JOSEPH W. BATES. RUDOLPH BOBGEBSRODE. Witnesses:

GEO. A. PARKER, ISAAC H. OHARRA.

